AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

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AMD Radeon HD 6950

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1683MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (180W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti +263%

8.186 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

VS

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Nov 2017

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1607 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1683 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

-

SM Count

19

1408

Shading Units

2432

88

TMUs

152

32

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.7 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

255.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

127.9 GFLOPS

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.186 TFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

255.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

180W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

GP104

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

GP104-300-A1

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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